Chapter 277 Rachels determination (1/2)
It has been three months since Rachel last laid eyes on Alex, and right now she was looking at her father with a defiant face. Rachel getting a bit agitated couldn't wait anymore and was about to leave so that she could try and save Alex, but was instead intercepted by her father Dan.
”Where do you think you're going?”
”Where else? I'm going to save Alex.”
”Huh?... Rachel... I understand that Alex is important to you, and I know you want to do everything you can to save him. Still... I'm sure you are aware that with your current abilities, you won't be able to do it. First off, you don't even know where he is, and even if by some miracle you do find out where he's being held. You won't be able to do anything, except head towards your death... I'm sure you remember what I told you about Alex's grandfather. That guy is unbelievably powerful. Even in my FULL RELEASE state I wasn't able to do jack sh*t, what more can you do?”
Dan clenched his fist and gritted his teeth, as he remembered that fight. He was treated like a child by that old man. It was a very shameful experience for someone like Dan who dedicated his life to his martial art. Rachel seeing her father look like he was suppressing himself, understood what kind of opponents she was about to face.
These people weren't the everyday thugs and perverts that she had to deal with, they were people that would not think twice when trying to kill her. Still, Rachel wasn't just twiddling her thumbs for the past three months. She practiced her martial art until she sweated blood, and her fist bled. Not only that in those three months she met Arthur Glory, who saw her practicing one day, and actually helped her improve.
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Two months ago, Arthur was passing by the capital of Berdonia when he saw Rachel practicing. The style she was using was something amazing to Arthur. The only problem with the martial art Rachel was using, was that all of her movements seem to indicate that her attacks were meant to beat the opponent in one shot. There was no follow through to any of her movements, which were all one shot one kill type moves.
This was a weakness most practitioner of the Ultimate martial art style had, well aside from Dan who actually made follow up moves. Most of the practitioners of the so called Ultimate martial art didn't have much options for using follow up moves, as they focused more in beating the opponent in one hit.
The original idea was one hit for victory. This has already been fixed by Dan, but he wasn't able to teach the others the new set of moves. The only other person that had follow through moves, was Dan's wife Kumiko, who also notice the problem once one was facing someone way beyond ones level.
Arthur who saw this, thought that the style would have been near perfection if it had more combinations. Seeing how valiantly Rachel was practicing, piqued the interest of the old man. Not to mention that he was truly interested in Rachel's martial art. So Arthur went ahead adn introduced himself to Rachel and started teaching her some moves that she could incorporate into her style.
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Two months later, Rachel was now face to face with her father, who was stopping her from rescuing Alex.
”Don't worry Rachel me, Carlo, and the others will be the one to bring Alex home. This time I promise I won't fail and that I will bring him back no matter what.”